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May 15th, 2012 by Joel

Book Announcement: People of the Book: Inviting Communities into Biblical Interpretation

Congrats to Michael Halcomb on this!

You have to go here… to learn about ordering it:

We wrote this book because we live in an era when the Bible appears to be less and less relevant to mainstream cultures. Those who do care about the Scriptures tend to derive their interpretations secondhand, from the preacher’s pulpit or from generalized study guides written by complete strangers. These approaches overlook the communal and conversational nature of the Bible itself. Our view is that, if we hope to recover the transformative power of these ancient texts, and invite our world to reconsider their significance, we will need to engage whole communities together in the bottom-up task of interpretation. Thus, People of the Book was written to offer an organic-holistic approach to communal interpretation, an approach that can work for your community and appeal to your wider culture. Indeed, we envision the Bible as a conversation we are privileged to enter: listening, questioning, wrestling, reasoning, and responding together as authentic people of the Book.

May 9th, 2012 by RodtRDH

Debunking the Lawyers of Noncontradiction

There have been a few fundamentalists taking cheap shots at my arguments with the same old “you’re violating the law of noncontradiction” argument. It gets old, so to put it to rest, placing it 6 feet under my feet, I have a response:

“This is not the first time, and I am sure it won’t be the last time, that a fundamentalist anti-intellectual has accused me of not following the “law of contradiction.” May I ask a question, if I may? Who set up this law? Who voted you to enforce this law?”

In Which I Not So Passive Agressively Talk About Truth And Rationality

April 30th, 2012 by Joel

MLA urging allowance for digital education (digital humanities)

The Modern Language Association wants evaluators to get with the digital program. In a revised set of “Guidelines for Evaluating Work in Digital Humanities and Digital Media,” the association urges departments and committees that evaluate academic work in digital media and digital humanities to give it the weight it deserves and to make sure they know how to assess it in the first place. Candidates for jobs and faculty members up for review should also make sure they understand how they’re going to be assessed, negotiate terms for evaluation, and document their work clearly, the group advises.

via MLA Urges Evaluators to ‘Give Full Regard’ to Digital Work – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education.

April 27th, 2012 by Joel

Call for Abstracts: A “Supernatural” History of Central Europe, 1870-Present

We seek abstracts from scholars interested in exploring the new spiritualities, unique metaphysical experiences and practices, and novel explanations of the world that stood somewhere between natural scientific verifiability and the shopworn truths of traditional religion, and which flourished across Central Europe in the wake of the Second Industrial Revolution. We are keen to see submissions that integrate social, political, and cultural history with “supernatural” thinking and practice, broadly conceived. We are especially interested in submissions that will extend their analysis and explorations beyond national boundaries, connecting people, ideas, experiences, and movements interculturally and transnationally.

TheoFantastique | A meeting place for myth, imagination, and mystery in pop culture.

If you are interested… go there….

April 24th, 2012 by Joel

Hey Backpage.com, thanks for selling 17 year olds for sex. I hope you go to hell

Those shoes are a painful reminder of how she was coerced into selling her body for sex by an older man she hoped would become her boyfriend. Instead, she worked long hours in hotel rooms where she would service up to 20 men a night. (here)

This girl is 17. There are countless others like her.

There is nothing much that Backpage can do to about the decline of morality in America, but what it can do is to not foster a place for it to take place.

I hope that God goes all Old Testament on those who are refusing to protect the children… or, I hope that Jesus gets his millstone out.

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April 19th, 2012 by Joel

Idolatry – The Ron Paul Video Game

Supporters of Ron Paul are chronically frustrated over an apparent lack of attention given to the presidential hopeful. One supporter is trying to fight the tide by creating a Web video game. “Ron Paul: Road to REVOLution,” due later this summer, will illustrate his quest to for the White House in an interactive format.

via Ron Paul video game is in the works – Ingame on msnbc.com.

Oh my…. Now, the Paul-ites will never leave their mothers’ basements.

April 16th, 2012 by Joel

More Churches creating their own bible study materials

Not too long ago, hardly any church would have dared to plan, write and publish its own Bible study materials. Before computers, desktop publishing and easy access to the Internet, the task would have been so daunting, few churches would have had the resources to pull it off. These days, all that has changed.

And a growing number of churches are taking full advantage of these new possibilities. Technological advances have made micropublishing ventures common. And the rising educational level of American church members has created a larger pool of competent writers.

via Associated Baptist Press – More churches producing roll-your-own study materials.

Now, this is an awesome idea….

April 15th, 2012 by Joel

Human Remains found at Titanic shipwreck site

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Human remains may be embedded in the mud of the North Atlantic where the New York-bound Titanic came to rest when it sank 100 years ago, a federal official said Saturday.

A 2004 photograph, released to the public for the first time this week in an uncropped version to coincide with the disaster’s centenary, shows a coat and boots in the mud at the legendary shipwreck site.

“These are not shoes that fell out neatly from somebody’s bag right next to each other,” James Delgado, the director of maritime heritage at the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration, told The Associated Press in a phone interview.

via Officials say human remains may be at Titanic shipwreck site | Fox News.

That’s pretty cool….

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April 15th, 2012 by Joel

Quote of the Day: Book PublishERS

If the companies (and the people who work for them) are going to be in this business just five years from now, they will only thrive if they understand that an entirely new business model will have to be built and understood. And it will have nothing whatsoever to do with paper. It will be about ideas.

via The biggest problem facing book publishing – The Domino Project.

April 13th, 2012 by Joel

Vatican to give gift to the world

The Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (BAV) said on Thursday they intended to digitize 1.5 million pages of ancient texts and make them freely available online.

The libraries said the digitized collections will centre on three subject areas: Greek manuscripts, 15th-century printed books and Hebrew manuscripts and early printed books.

via Oxford University, Vatican libraries to digitize works | Reuters.